Wednesday, February 1, 2017

Latin Alchemy Daily Create: Tabula Smaragdina (3)

Here's another quote from the Tabula Smaragdina, which has a great Wikipedia article containing the Latin text plus two English translations... including Isaac Newton's translation! This passage continues to discuss the "unum," the one thing, and it recalls an emblem we saw earlier in Atalanta Fugiens:

Portavit illud Ventus in ventre suo.

Isaac Newton: The wind hath carried it in its belly.Theatrum Chemicum: The wind bore it in the womb.